{"id":36955,"date":"2012-05-21T20:36:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T20:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/before-streaming-video-ted-was-a-conference-it\/"},"modified":"2012-05-21T20:36:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T20:36:07","slug":"before-streaming-video-ted-was-a-conference-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/before-streaming-video-ted-was-a-conference-it\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Before streaming video, TED was a conference \u2014 it is not named for a person, but stands for \u201ctechnology, entertainment and design\u201d \u2014 organized by celebrated \u201cinformation architect\u201d (fancy graphic designer) Richard Saul Wurman. Wurman sold the conference, in 2002, to a nonprofit foundation started and run by former publisher and longtime do-gooder Chris Anderson (not the Chris Anderson of Wired). Anderson grew TED from a woolly conference for rich Silicon Valley millionaire nerds to a giant global brand. It has since become a much more exclusive, expensive elite networking experience with a much more prominent public face \u2014 the little streaming videos of lectures. It\u2019s even franchising \u2014 \u201cTEDx\u201d events are licensed third-party TED-style conferences largely unaffiliated with TED proper \u2014 and while TED is run by a nonprofit, it brings in a tremendous amount of money from its members and corporate sponsorships. At this point TED is a massive, money-soaked orgy of self-congratulatory futurism, with multiple events worldwide, awards and grants to TED-certified high achievers, and a list of speakers that would cost a fortune if they didn\u2019t agree to do it for free out of public-spiritedness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/05\/21\/dont_mention_income_inequality_please_were_entrepreneurs\/singleton\/\">Don\u2019t mention income inequality please, we\u2019re entrepreneurs &#8211; Salon.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before streaming video, TED was a conference \u2014 it is not named for a person, but stands for \u201ctechnology, entertainment and design\u201d \u2014 organized by celebrated \u201cinformation architect\u201d (fancy graphic designer) Richard Saul Wurman. Wurman sold the conference, in 2002, to a nonprofit foundation started and run by former publisher and longtime do-gooder Chris Anderson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-36955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9C3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}